Stanley Milgram kept data sheets like the one pictured here for all 24 variations of his obedience experiments. However, while he conducted the experiments over … Read more »
Ian Parker, Granta and me
I’ve been reading recently about the popularization of science. A common theme in the academic articles I’ve read so far is the notion that as … Read more »
Kohlberg, Milgram and morals
Most people who know of Laurence Kohlberg know him as the psychologist who did so much work on how we develop our moral reasoning. He’s … Read more »
Obedience in print
Here it is, the article that started it all, published 50 years ago in October 1963 – Stanley Milgram’s Behavioral Study of Obedience. But publication … Read more »
Obedience conference goes too fast
I’m just back from Canada where I co-convened the first ever Obedience to Authority conference with my colleague and fellow antipodean scholar, New Zealander Nestar … Read more »
Milgram’s secret experiments
Tom Bartlett over at the Chronicle of Higher Education has blogged about my discovery of obedience experiments that Stanley Milgram kept secret. In these experiments, … Read more »
Milgram’s obedience turns 50
It’s half a century ago this year since Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments first made their way into print. His first article about the experiments was … Read more »
Short history of shock
Shock machines were being used at educational institutions to improve student performance long before Stanley Milgram devised his obedience experiments at Yale in 1961. The … Read more »
Yale appoints Professor of Pickpocketing
Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment with its elaborate deception and sleight-of-hand was conducted in 1961 in the basement of a building at Yale University. Not that … Read more »
Inside Milgram’s shock machine
If you look at the photo you’ll notice a sign above the woman who’s entering an exhibit at the American Psychological Association’s 100th anniversary exhibition. … Read more »